Review of Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online was kind of all over the place, sometimes I was like WOW and didn't exactly get bored, but wasn't really having fun either... it was hard to summarize how I felt exactly. Mostly, it wasn't that fun though. SAO is basically the story of Kirito and a few friends that get trapped in an online MMO game. Now, at this point I vaguely recalled the likes of .hack and other MMO anime which, as far as I know, people really liked and were quite entertained. However, SAO is not intended to be that kind of happy experience, instead Asuna was like Isaid kind of cool but then she doesn't really have a major impact, it's pretty much all Kirito, who can be pretty boring in some ways.

I guess at the same time though it was kind of fun at times, for whatever reason the main friend of Kirito Klein throughout the whole thing was pretty amusing, he kept getting all upset and annoyed at Kirito and Asuna for being so reckless and crazy and I was like yeah no kidding!! He was really not a main character though which was one of the issues, I guess it just seemed like Asuna and Kirito were both just so into each other and then there's Klein like HEY GUYS THIS IS CRAZY. I guess he was like the voice of reason basically.

But that was just a tiny bit in what was really just a VN of maybe a not so good video game. Call me picky (or the gamer in me or whatever) but SAO seems like one really boring MMO, really you level up and pick that many skills from a list, you fight boars outside a main quest town? Tolkien called, he once his thing back.

Ultimately I think a 6 is pretty good which is like somewhere in the middle, because really this was just not fun at times, but kind of fun at other times.